How to get app version in Windows Phone?

Question

In C# one can use System.Version.Assembly to get the version of a running app. However this doesn't appear to exist in Silverlight for Windows Phone. Is there an alternative?

Answer 1

You can use the GetExecutingAssembly method and the AssemblyName class to find this information.

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  var nameHelper = new AssemblyName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName);

  var version = nameHelper.Version;
  var full = nameHelper.FullName;
  var name = nameHelper.Name;

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Answer 2

On Phone 7 there is no clean way to get the version. The best thing to do is parse the Full Name (which is the only exposed property) for the version string:

String appVersion = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName.Split('=')[1].Split(',')[0];